Bart Wuurman

Hercules Pharmaceuticals BV operates as biopharmaceutical company, which develops oral and non-toxic drug therapy for chronic treatment of patients with triple negative breast cancer. The company was founded by David Sherr in 2013 and is headquartered in Leiden, the Netherlands.

Apaxen SA is a privately-held biotechnology company that was founded in 2018 and is based in an undisclosed location. The Belgian company has raised €5.4 million in equity and grant funding since its A round in 2019. Apaxen is focused on developing a pipeline of NLRP3 inflammasome inhibitors with a novel mechanism of action for the treatment of chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The company's clinical candidate, MFC-1040, is an orally bioavailable and selective small molecule NLRP3 inflammasome inhibitor that has demonstrated efficacy in multiple animal models of chronic inflammatory disease and pulmonary fibrosis. The company's team combines the experience required for clinical development of its products and is supported by a world-class team of scientific advisors. Apaxen has a pipeline of products at discovery and preclinical stages of development for the treatment of diseases associated with chronic inflammation that depend on NLRP3 inflammasome activation. The company was founded in 2018 by Gael Jalce, Enrico Jose Adolfo Bastianelli, and Bart Wuurman has been the CEO of the company since 2020.

LanthioPep BV specializes in vivo stability of therapeutic and diagnostic imaging peptides. Its products include pancyte, lanthi apelin and galanin agonist. The company is headquartered in Groningen, the Netherlands.

Lanthio Pharma BV focuses on discovering and developing lantipeptides for the generation of novel peptide therapeutics. Its product is a lanthionine-stabilized specific agonist of the AT2 receptor, which has great potential in diseases where tissue protection is important, like fibrosis. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Groningen, the Netherlands.

AM-Pharma BV operates as a biopharmaceutical company. It engages in the development of proprietary recombinant human Alkaline Phosphatase. The firm’s products include Acute Kidney Injury, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases and Hypophosphatasia. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Bunnik, the Netherlands.

De Novo Pharmaceuticals Ltd. discovers and develops drugs. It is a novel molecular structure generating drug discovery platform targeting pathogenic bacteria. The firm offers lower cost, rapid, lower molecular weights hits, novel, and patentable hit molecules. The company was founded by David Bailey, Iwan de Esch, and Philip Dean M on April 28, 1999 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Sarossa Capital Ltd. is an investment holding and management company. Its principal activity is investing in and growth and development of businesses which present opportunities for value creations. The company currently intends to indentify investment opportunities offering the potential to deliver a favorable return to shareholders over the medium term, primarily in the form of capital gain. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Organon Biosciences NV specializes in biopharmaceutical manufacturing and distribution services. It develops products in the areas of cardiovascular disease, fertility, gynecology, anesthesia, respiratory, consumer health care, and neuroscience, immunology, animal health, and oncology. The company’s products include mometasone furoate inhalation powder, moxifloxacin, pegylated liposomal doxorubicin HCI, desogestrel, desloratadine, sun care, cold/flu medicine, foot care, follitropin beta, formoterol fumarate inhalation powder, hormone therapy, and canine vaccines. It was founded in 1923 and is headquartered in Oss, the Netherlands.